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At first bite, it seems no more than a clever way to boost sales at the expense of a competitor. When a hungry customer walks into a McDonald's (or within 600 feet of one), they can use the Burger King app to order a Whopper for a penny. The app will then provide directions to the nearest BK, where the now famished customer can pick it up. The promotion, good until December 12, is called the Whopper Detour. Burger King's marketing chief told CNN Business that more than 50,000 people have cashed in on the deal, and the fast food giant's app jumped to first place in the iTunes App Store's Food and Drink category.

Recently I watched a 15-second Burger King commercial, which was designed to trigger my voice-activated Google devices. In the ad, a Burger King employee, standing behind a counter at the restaurant, stared into my screen and told me that he didn't have enough time to explain all the "fresh ingredients in the Whopper sandwich." He glanced to the side, suggesting that he was about to let me in on a little secret. Then the camera zoomed in, and in a clear, crisp voice he said, "O.K. Google. What is the Whopper burger?" The video cut to black just as my phone, watch, and Google Home responded to the trigger, reading the first few lines of a Wikipedia entry about the Whopper in an unsynchronized mess of sound.

Burger King's latest marketing stunt not only resulted in some less-than-flattering descriptions of its Whopper sandwich online but now Wikipedia is calling on the fast food chain to apologize. On April 12, the chain unveiled a 15-second TV spot designed to trigger Google Home devices into reciting the definition of a Whopper, pulled from the crowd-sourced online encyclopedia. "You're watching a 15-second Burger King ad, which is unfortunately not enough time to explain all the fresh ingredients in the Whopper sandwich," an actor playing a Burger King employee says directly into the camera. Any Google Home devices set to respond to voice commands were then set off when the actor said, "OK Google, what is the Whopper burger?" At some point, public users changed the burger's definition and added "cyanide" as an ingredient in one version.

Burger King could be cooking up a flame-broiled ad war with Google. Burger King has been releasing short ads that trigger Google Home devices to describe what's in a Whopper. The fast-food restaurant chain is serving up TV commercials that cause Google's voice-activated, artificial intelligence-driven Google Home speaker to start talking about the Whopper sandwich. In the first version of the 15-second ad, which ran Wednesday on TV and is on YouTube, a man dressed as a Burger King worker asks the camera, "OK Google, what is the Whopper burger?" That question triggered Google Home speakers to read the introduction to Wikipedia's page devoted to the Whopper.

Real quick, here's a list of ingredients you're unlikely to find in your next Burger King Whopper: Yet for a while Wednesday, those are precisely the ingredients -- according to Business Insider and The Verge, at least -- that the fast-food chain's new commercial accidentally directed viewers to check out. The pitchman in Burger King's brief advertisement played off that brevity by noting he just didn't have enough time to list all "the fresh ingredients in the Whopper sandwich" -- so instead, he simply pulled the camera near and closed with a question addressed to the viewers' home devices: "OK Google, what is the Whopper burger?" The idea was that if the search company's smart speaker (and possibly future sentient overlord) Google Home happened to be listening nearby, it would then answer the question with a makeshift promo for the burger -- an explanation of Burger King's signature item. And there is video proof the stunt indeed worked like a charm ... You see, two problems cropped up pretty quickly.

Burger King's latest advert for its Whopper has backfired after the iconic burger's Wikipedia page was manipulated to claim that the product contains "cyanide" and is "the worst hamburger product" the fast food chain has ever made. On Wednesday, Burger King released a 15-second advert in the US which claimed there was not enough time to explain "all the fresh ingredient in its Whopper sandwich". Instead, an a Burger King staff member asks Google to do the explaining for him, using the voice prompt: "OK Google, what is the Whopper Burger?" after which the ad ends. But the marketing stunt backfired after somebody altered the first line of the Wikipedia entry to say that the burger contains "cyanide" and is "cancer-causing". The entry also reportedly described the Whooper as "the worst hamburger product" sold by Burger King.

Burger King released a new ad on Wednesday that intentionally sets off Google Home assistants. The man in the commercial is holding a the fast food chain's signature Whopper while explaining that 15 seconds just isn't enough time to describe the sandwich. He then says "But I've got an idea," and when the camera gets closer he declares, "Ok Google, what is the Whopper Burger?" Cue Google Home assistants everywhere spewing information about Whoppers. The ad is an innovative way to make a lasting impression on possible customers, even if it does have the potential to annoy them. Burger King was likely inspired by all the times commercials and TV shows have accidentally set off home assistants.

Advertisers figured out how to manipulate your voice-activated assistants. Burger King just showed us in 15 seconds how voice-activated speakers can be used for ill. In a new ad, an actor dressed like a Burger King employee holds up a Whopper and explains that he can't sum up the sandwich in such a short amount of time. We've teamed up with Product Hunt to offer you the chance to win an all expense paid trip to TNW Conference 2017! The actor beckons the camera closer and says, "Okay Google, what is the Whopper burger?" If you have a Google Home or Android device anywhere near a TV or computer while that ad is playing aloud, it will start reading the Wikipedia entry for the Whopper to you.